Definition of Shamanist

1. Adjective. Of or relating to shamanism.

Exact synonyms: Shamanistic
Partainyms: Shamanism, Shamanism
Derivative terms: Shamanism, Shamanism

Definition of Shamanist

1. n. An adherent of Shamanism.

Definition of Shamanist

1. Noun. An adherent of shamanism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shamanist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shamanist

sham Abram
sham feeding
sham marriage
sham marriages
sham rage
shama
shamable
shamably
shamal
shaman
shamanesque
shamanic
shamanise
shamanism
shamanisms
shamanist (current term)
shamanistic
shamanistically
shamanists
shamanize
shamanlike
shamans
shamas
shamata
shamateur
shamateurism
shamateurs
shamba
shambas
shamble

Literary usage of Shamanist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Preaching of Islam: A History of the Propagation of the Muslim Faith by Thomas Walker Arnold (1896)
"When the other princes of the Golden Horde became Musalmans, Nogay remained a shamanist and thus became a rallying point for those who refused to abandon ..."

2. The Child and Childhood in Folk Thought: (The Child in Primative Culture) by Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1896)
"90): " Those who have the shamanist sickness endure physical torments; ... A kam told Potanin that the shamanist passion was hereditary, like noble birth. ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"In its modern form the motive is the assassination of a great enemy of Lamaism by a Lama disguised as a shamanist dancer, thus holding up for reverence the ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1905)
"Descent with modification has evolved the mythological and religious concepts of the Akkadian shamanist, the devotee of Osiris or Venus or Capitoline Jove, ..."

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